Apparatus for dyeing.



No. 660,402. Patented octzs, i900. N. L. smn'u.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

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'No. 660,402. Patented 0st. 23, I900.

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APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

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INVENTOI? UNITED STATES- PATENT, ()FFICE.

NORBURY L. SMITH, OF WATERFORD, NEW YORK.

APPARATUDSFOR DYEING.

fiPECIFIOATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 660,402, dated October23, 1900. Application filed Feb'rnary 28,1900. Seria11Io..6,844. (N0model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, NORBURY L.SMITH, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Dyeing-Machine, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for dyeing yarn orthe like in skeins; and the object is to provide a machine of simpleconstruction and having a means for automatically moving the skein orskeins into and out of the dye,and also for causing a rotary movement ofthe skein or skeins while in the dye, thus permitting all parts of thematerial to be uniformly dyed.

I will describe a dyeing-machine embodying my invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to'the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a dyeing-machine embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on theline 3 3 of Figz l. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a driving-wheelemployed, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the machine.

Referring to the drawings, 4 designates a dye vat or tub. Movablevertically in this vat or tub is a skein-carrying frame comprising enduprights 5 6, connected at the bottom by a bar 7 andconnected betweenthe ends by two bars 8 9, which are spaced apart to permit thesprocket-wheels 10 to rotate between them. The uprights 5 and 6 aremovable in guides 11 12, respectively arranged at the ends of the tub.The upright 5 has a rack portion 13, engaging with a gear 14, having itsshaft-bearings in the guide 11 and meshing with a worm-shaft 15,attached to which is a sprocket-wheel 16, from which a sprocket-chain 17extends to a sprocketwheel 18 on a counter-shaft 19, passing underneaththe vat or tub and lengthwise thereof. On the opposite end of this shaft19 is a sprocket-wheel 20, from which a chain 21 passes to asprocket-wheel 22 on a wormshaft 23, which engages with a gear 24,supported by the guide 12 and meshing with a sisting of a shaft 27,adapted for removable connection with its sprocket-wheel. I have hereshown the shaft as made angular in cross-section to engage in acorrespondinglyshaped opening 28 in a hubof a sprocketwheel 10, the saidhubs being mounted to rotate in boxes supported on the bars 8 and 9.

The several sprocket wheels Not the series are connected with and areoperated hya chain 29. Each reel 26, in addition to its shaft 27,consists of three or more rods 30, connected at the ends with wheels orspiders 31, attached to the shaft. These rods 30 preferably consist ofglass, porcelain, bronze, or the like, while the other portions of thereel consist of metal not liable to be afiected by the dye.

The hanks or skeins a: are passed around the reels, as indicated in Fig.1, and also around rollers 32, supported in the lower portion of theskein-carrying frame. The said rollers are supported by a bar 33, whichis adjustable in the frame, so that the distance between the rollers andthe reels may be accommodated to the size of the banks orskeins. The bar33 may be held as adjusted by any suitable means. I have here shown pins34 for passing through perforations in upwardlyextended end portions ofthe bar33 and into either one of a series of perforations formed in theuprights 5 6.

I will now describe means for causing vertical movements of theskein-carrying frame and also for causing rotary movements of theskeins. A driving-shaft 35, supported in arms 36, attached to one end ofthe vat or tub, has loosely secured to it two bevel-gears 37 38, both ofsaid bevel-gears being in mesh with a bevel-wheel 39, attached to thewormshaft 23. The driving-shaft 35 may be r0- tated in any desiredmanner. I have here shown it as provided with a sprocket-wheel 40,engaged by a chain 4]. Attached to the shaft 35 is anothersprocket-wheel'42, from which a chain 43 extendsto asprocket-wheel 44,mounted on a shaft 45, having bearings in arms 46, extended inward fromthe top of the vat or tub. Also on this shaft 45 is-apinion 47, adaptedto be engaged at certain times by a gear-wheel 48, secured to a shaft49, ex-, tended from one of the sprocket-WheelslO.

It is designed to alternately lock the wheels 37 and 38 in engagementwith the shaft-35. For this purpose I have shown a clutchsectionconsisting of a sleeve 50, movable longitudinally on the shaft 35, butadapted to rotate therewith. This clutchsection 50 is adapted atone endto engage with a clutchsection 51 on the bevel-gear 37 and at the otherend with a clutch-section 52 on the bevel-gear 38.

As a means for automatically shifting the clutch-section 50 I employ alever 53, which is pivoted to a stud on the guide 12 and has at itslower end a pin or pins which pass into a circumferential channel formedin the clutch-section. At its u pper end the shiftihglever 53 has anupwardly and outwardly in clined lug 53, adapted to engage with a pin 54on the upright 6, and arranged below the upper end of said lever is adownwardly and outwardly inclined lug 55, adapted to engage with a pin56, also on the upright 6.

In operation after the skeins are placed on the reels and rollerscarried by the frame motion imparted to the driving-shaft 35 willoperate the gears 14 and 24 to cause vertical movementof theskein-carrying frame. Du ring this movement of course the gear-wheel 48will be moved out of its engagement with the pinion 47. This pinion, itwill be understood, is continuously rotated from the shaft 35. As theskein-carrying frame approaches its upper position the lug 55, byengaging the pin 56, will shift the lever 53, consequently moving theclutch member 50 out of engagement with the wheel 38 and into engagementwith the wheel 37, so that the worm-shaft 23 will be rotated in theopposite direction, causing the frame to move downward, and when in itslowermost position the gear 48, by engaging with the pinion 47, willcause a rotary movement of the sprocket-wheels 10, reels 26, and rollers32, causing the several skeins to move a certain distance in the dye.When at this lowermost position, the lug 53 engaging with the pin 54will shift the clutchsection 50 to again engage with the gear 38,causing the frame to move upward, as before described.

It is obvious that the rotary movements of the skeins will permit allportions thereof to be at some time within the dyeing fluid, and duringthe non-rotary movements of said skeins the superfluous fluid will drainoff.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure hy Letters Patent 1. A skein-dyeingmachine, comprising a dye-vat, a frame movable vertically in the vat.reels mounted to rotate on the frame,sprocketwheels having engagementwith the reels, a

sprocket-chain engaging with the several sprocket-wheels, a gear-wheelattached to the shaft of one of said sprocket-wheels,a pinion havingbearings in a bracket attached to the vat and adapted to be engaged bysaid gearwheel when in its lowermost position, the gear-wheel and pinionbeing disengaged when the gear-wheel with the frame is moved upward andmeans for rotating said pinion, substantially as specified.

2. Adyeing-machine,comprisingadye-vat, a frame for carrying the materialto be dyed, a driving-shaft, gear-wheels loosely mounted on said shaft,a shaft for causing vertical movements of the frame, a gear-wheelrigidly attached to said shaft, and meshing with both of the first-namedgear-wheels, a clutch-section slidable on the driving-shaft, and meansfor moving said clutch-section to lock either one of the gear-wheels inrotary connection with the driving-shaft, substantially as specified.

3. A skein-dyeing machine, comprising a dye-vat, a frame movable in saiddye-vat and consisting of upright end portions each provided withrack-bars, two bars connecting the upper portions of said uprights,sprocketwheels supported to rotate between said two bars, reels attachedto the sprocket-wheels, a chain connecting with the severalsprocketwheels, means for moving said chain to rotate thesprocketwheels, gear-wheels engaging with the rack portions of theframe, and means for rotating said gear-Wheels alter nately in oppositedirections, substantially as specified.

4. In a dyeing-machine, a dye-vat, guides arranged vertically in saiddye-vat, a frame movable in said guides and adapted to carry thematerial to be dyed, gear-wheels engaging with rack portions of theframe, a driving-shaft, gear-wheels loosely mounted on saiddriving-shaft, a worm-shaft engaging with the firstnamed gear-wheels, agearwheel on one of said worm-shafts and engaging with the gear-wheelson the driving-shaft, a driving connection between the two wormshafts, aclutch-section on the driving-shaft and adapted for engagement witheither one of the gear-wheels thereon, a shifting-lever pivoted to oneof the guides, and cam-1n gs on said lever adapted for engagement withpins on one of the uprights ofthe frame for moving the clutch-section,substantially as specified.

5. A dyeing-machine, comprising adye-vat, a frame for carrying thematerial to be dyed, racks on said frame, gear-wheels connected withsaid racks at opposite ends of the vat,

1 rev-shaft extended underneath the vat, two subscribing witnesses.

Worm-shafts engaging with the gear-wheels, In testimony whereof i havesigned my sprocket-Wheels on said Worm-shafts, a oounname to thisspecification in the presence of sprocket-wheels on saidcounter-shaft,spr0cket-chains connecting the sprocket-wheels of-Witnesses: an end, and means for imparting motion to GEORGE T. OWEN, theworm-shafts, substantially as specified. GEORGE E. SMITH.

NORBURY L. SMITH.

